Phosphorescence

Phosphorescent pigment - I don't know anything about this but it has an attraction - it may be useful one day. Look up on google:

http://luminousmaterial.en.ecplaza.net/photoluminescent-pigment-glow-in-the--266341-1950410.html

photoluminescent pigment glow in the dark

Application
1. After recharged by visible light, lamp light, UV light, Ir light for 10~20 minutes, it glows in the dark for 10~12 hours, can be used as additive in transparent medium: paint, ink, plastic, rubber, resin, fibre, printing slurry. 2. Consumer products: garments; shoes∩︀ toys; stationery; watch; switch; novelties; fishing tools and sporting goods; safety products; 3. Area as follows:building; decoration; traffic vehicle; military installations; fire emergency system,etc. 

 Sounds very exciting.

Then found this image:

Lynda Benglis, Phantom, 1971. Polyurethane foam with phosphorescent pigments, 8 1/2 x 35 x 8ft (overall installation dimension variable). Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art © Lynda Benglis. DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009

Nancy Spero snippet came along jogging my memory about her and her work.  The deep content expressed in a seemingly simple way and presented in interesting ways.  She is someone whose work I would love to see properly.  Interesting as she was a contemporary of Lynda Benglis - funny how these connections come about by chance sometimes.

Sky Goddess/Egyptian Acrobat 1987-88, handprinting and printed collage on paper Photograph: Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Alinah Azadeh and sketchbook pages

Alinah Azadeh - came across an article in Cloth and Culture, Being Woven: The Transformation of the Self within Woven Spaces,  by this artist some time again Cloth and Culture. (Volume 8, Issue1, pp.36-49. 2010)  I find her way through and methodology interesting.  She uses the words metaphor, connections, poetics narrative, journey etc. a lot so I feel some sort of empathy is there.  The article (by her) in Cloth and Culture concentrates on "The Loom: from Text to Textile, 2005 and "Crafting Space, 2008. Both interesting. Looking her up on the internet I've found The Gifts, 2010, Chasing Mirrors 2011 and various other things. Lots of wrapping, suspending (echoes of Cornelia Parker here) - must research more.  Am very annoyed with myself for missing these things,  especially the National Portrait Gallery earlier this year!.

Wrapped some bones once - find them and perhaps wrap some wishbones with labels and words - like the parchment labels on the relics from the Hildesheim portable altar at the BM Treasure of Heaven.

Pages from my sketchbook:

some images of the newly come across artists Antoni Tapies - the wrapping and the mark making appeal